Dan Millman Quotes

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• When you begin your transcendental training, focusing your best efforts, without attachment to outcomes, you will understand the peaceful warrior's way.
• Meditation is a valuable exercise, but eventually you have to open up your eyes and look around.
• When in haste, rest in the present. Take a deep breath and come back to here and now.
• Faith is the recognition that Spirit works in, as and through each and all of us - through every person and every circumstance.
• Life is not suffering; it's just that you will suffer it, rather than enjoy it, until you let go of your mind's attachments and just…
• A little bit of something beats a lot of nothing. Break the largest of difficult tasks into the smallest of steps and it can be…
• Consciousness is not in the body; the body is in consciousness. And you are that consciousness.
• Stress happens when your mind resists what is...The only problem in your life is your mind's resistance to life as it unfolds.
• Choice means saying no to one thing so you can say yes to another.
• Someday, in the moment of death, your whole life will pass before you. In a few fractions of a second-because time no longer applies-you will…
• It may be true that the unexamined life is not worth living-but neither is the unlived life worth examining.
• When running up a hill, it is all right to give up as many times as you wish-as long as your feet keep on moving.
• When we feel stuck, going nowhere-even starting to slip backward-we may actually be backing up to get a running start.
• Do you have the courage for it? Do you have the love? If you have enough of one, you will develop the other.
• Don't wait until you die to learn the warrior's way. Do it now, each night, just before you drift off to sleep. As you review…
• In the real world, those of us who are most productive, successful, and satisfied focus not on fixing feelings or manipulating thoughts, but on what…
• If you desire to dig a well to reach water, your efforts are more fruitful if you dig one 100-foot-deep hole than if you dig…
• Avoid fragmentation: Find your focus and seek simplicity. Purposeful living calls for elegant efficiency and economy of effort-expanding the minimum time and energy necessary to…
• Don't be like the preacher who thought about praying while making love with his life and thought about love while praying.
• As a peaceful warrior, I would choose when, where and how I would behave. With that commitment, I began to live the life of a…

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